Streamers outside |
Windblown fukinagashi |
Streamers along the approach to the arcade |
Festival-goers in traditional summer dress |
Cartoonish streamers in the Hon-machi arcade |
Below the colorful streamers |
Rows of streamers in the arcade |
Pink panther balloons at a yatai |
Set of fukinagashi in the Hon-machi arcade |
Little girls in yukata |
Checking out a colorful gate |
Streamers out the south end of the arcade |
Sidestreet off the Hon-machi arcade |
Ocean-themed fukinagashi display |
Hexagram and pink streamers |
Fukinagashi detail |
Chunichi Dragons mascot and pal |
Gate depicting the Tanabata tale |
Streamers blowing within the arcade |
Paper lanterns and fukinagashi |
Detail of the Tanabata gate |
Group of bright Tanabata streamers |
Children-donated streamers with tanzaku |
Approach to Masumida-jinja |
Yatai outside the shrine entrance |
Fukinagashi display outside Masumida-jinja |
Local older women at the start of the parade |
Arrival of the bon dancers |
Bon dancing women |
Dancer in the parade |
Group of bon dancers |
Dancing beneath the streamers |
Fukinagashi out front Masumida-jinja's main gate |
Main hall of Masumida-jinja and |
Flame-ringed arch in front of a smaller shrine |
Sake barrels in front of Masumida-jinja's main hall |
Shrine attendant offering a blessing |
Hula dancers on the shrine grounds |
Groups of streamers hanging near the shrine |
Yukata-clad girls and yakitori stall |
Main gate and sake barrels |
Pensive boy and rows of yatai |
Crowd watching the hula show |
Stall selling grilled corn |
Yukata girls walking past a charm stall |
Young girls in jinbei |
Girls in front of a haunted house |
Young boy eating a "tornado potato" |
Even the dogs dress festively! |
Hiroshima-yaki stand and passing local |
Albution font at the shrine |
Old stone bridge outside Masumida-jinja |
View down the Hon-machi arcade |
Miss Tanabata arrives at the scene |
Ichinomiya Miss Orimono girl |
Second Miss Orimono girl |